Friday, September 26, 2014

ASTROGODS!


I had alot of fun with this.  Just making up some crazy superheros to go up against my Celestial sorta guys...  And the city is a bit wonky looking but I like it.

If you want to get a head...



Get a hat?

In The Back


More People Protector Akay art from part 3 of the story...

Jungle Action


A spot of additional art from Akay.  I wanted something fairly neutral and background to be a bit of a contrast with all the bombast in the actual strip itself...

Nightworld

 This was the double-page spread from Nightworld #1, still in the shops if you're lucky...  By the time I'd got to what you see above I'd already spent many hours pasting together 4 seperate pieces of artwork from Paolo Leandri into one piece split into a few layers and alot of channels in one Photoshop Image. 
 I got rid of the spirits for a while using Photoshops "Exorcism" tool so I could just concentrate on the physical elements of the image.
 Unticking the "Exorcism" box revealed the spirits again in more detail...
 Tweak and reduce opacity a bit...  nearly there now.
I restored the line-work in the background, which had been a hold, back to black and we're good to go.  This took a while...

Check out http://www.nightworldcomic.com/

And also, here https://kyle-welch-c8u4.squarespace.com/blog/ where you can scroll down a bit and find an interview with Adam McG, the writer of this haunted tome.

Thursday, September 25, 2014

Orbits of Ephemera



Yes!  It's a muscly blue cyclopean guy with a face on his chest riding a giant hairy white spider fighting a mob of unruly blobby demons!  What more could you want from a comic?

"What happened to the American Dream?"

"You're looking at it!"

 The original art for this was from one of the promo posters DC put out shortly before the Watchmen  first started publication...  I'd like to colour them all up at some point.  They're all great.  Artwork by Dave Gibbons, colours by me...